Slumdogs, meet the millionaires
Matthew Reisz talks to the researcher who wants to find out if 'slum tourism' has any useful purpose
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Exam howlersExplanation for the LehmanAs academics start to see the light at the end of their tunnels of marking, ߣߣÊÓƵ is making its annual call for entries to its "exam howlers"...
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Short and the long of it
The sector offers the total package: blue-skies insights for the future and industrial payoffs now, argues Nick Wright
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Without fees reform, our children would really feel the pinch
David Willetts defends the coalition's student finance policy as a fair, progressive model that will support the present and protect the future
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Exam? What exam?
"No one told me there was such an exam. If I'd known, I'd certainly have had a shot."That was the forthright response of our vice-chancellor to the recent claim by Fred Inglis in Times Higher...
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Leader: The best that money can't buy
The market has its limits. Whether it is good or bad depends on context, and all must be alert to ideological creep in the academy
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Research Intelligence - For all their sakes, and science's too
Response to EU law will spur the UK's leading role in reducing animal testing. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
• Sharp-eyed readers who wondered why, in our 17 May issue, we reported that only one of two academics at Queen Mary, University of London who wrote a critical letter to The Lancet had apparently...
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From Where I Sit - Female role model
"We enjoy your classes," my seminar students said to me, "because you're not a real teacher." When I asked what they meant, they told me about the "real" classes of certain, named male teachers. "...
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Odds and quads
These images are taken from the Bowen Collection, now held by the University of Bath, which was assembled as part of the research for a book on the origins and history of judo in the UK.
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Appointments
Liverpool Hope UniversityFrank Cottrell BoyceThe newly appointed professor of reading and communication at Liverpool Hope University joked that his first thought when he was offered the job was: "...
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Means, ends and endings
Alan Ryan on commencement season in the US: this time, it’s political
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Zero-sum game
The government’s ruthless, distorted idea of ‘competition’ will impoverish the whole academy and everyone in it. Thomas Docherty muses on a prescient 40-year-old speech warning of the trap at the end...
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Prometheus
Three decades after confronting our anxieties about reproduction in Alien, Sir Ridley Scott returns to the universe of his classic sci-fi horror film. Davina Quinlivan considers the franchise and...